Norway’s Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has signed a data licensing agreement worth USD 6.4 million for the provision of 3D controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) and magnetotelluric (MT) data from EMGS’s multi-client data library in the Norwegian Sea. These revenues will be recognised in the second quarter of 2013. Following this transaction, EMGS has in total secured [...]
Finland’s offshore and marine equipment manufacturer Wärtsilä has won a valuable order to supply a series of pumps to be installed on a new floating storage unit (FSU). The FSU is being built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea for Statoil, the Norway based international energy company. When completed, it will be located on [...]
Floatel Superior accommodation rig, which was on November 7 evacuated after it had tilted 4 degrees due to a hole in the ballast tank, arrived at Kristiansund on Friday, November 9. The owner of the unit, Floatel International, informed that a first inspection of the damage was carried out confirming the preliminary assessment that the [...]
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has granted approval to oil company Statoil to carry out exploration drilling with West Alpha offshore drilling rig. Statoil will use the 1986. built semi-submersible rig to drill the 6610/10-1 well, located in PL 286 in the Norwegian Sea. The drilling, in a water depth of 244 meters, is expected to [...]
Framo Engineering, a Schlumberger company, today announced that A/S Norske Shell has awarded the company a 100-million USD contract for the supply of a complete subsea multiphase booster pump system for the Draugen Field in Norwegian Sea. The contract includes a complete system for topside power and control, the power and control umbilical, and the [...]
Centrica Resources (Norge) AS, operator of production licence 477, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6506/11-9 S. The well was drilled about five kilometres east of the Morvin field and about five kilometres west of Åsgard (Smørbukk field) in the Norwegian Sea. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum [...]
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted BP Norge AS a drilling permit for well 6507/3-9 S in Norwegian Sea. Well 6507/3-9 S will be drilled from the Polar Pioneer drilling facility at position 65°56` 44.28″ north and 7°41´ 32.83″ east. The drilling programme for wellbore 6507/3-9 S pertains to the drilling of a wildcat well [...]
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E.ON Ruhrgas Norge AS (ERN) has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 6507/6-4 (S&A) in the Norwegian Sea with the Borgland Dolphin mobile facility. The well will be drilled in production licence 350, with ERN as the operator (40%). The other licensees are Statoil ASA (30%) and PGNiG (30%). The well is [...]
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Rocksource ASA announced today that the drilling rig “Borgland Dolphin” is in the process of completing operations on the “Phoenix” prospect in PL 559 in the Norwegian Sea. The well has encountered reservoir sands in the Jurassic upper Åre formation, the lower Åre formation, the Grey Beds and in the upper part of the Triassic [...]
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Rocksource ASA (Rocksource) has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 6608/11-7S in the Norwegian Sea with the Borgland Dolphin mobile facility. The well will be drilled in production licence 559, with Rocksource as the operator (60%). The other licensees are VNG (30%) and Skagen44 AS (10%). The well is located in the [...]
